Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 12

Thou juicy, green, poisonous hemlock, throw thy shadow over Athens--not thou, olive tree of fame!

Who acts: thy · What happens: throw, shadow · To what, where: shadow, Athens

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 hemlock	nsubj
2	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hemlock	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 juicy	punct
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hemlock	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 green	punct
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hemlock	amod
7	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 throw	punct
9	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 hemlock	parataxis
10	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 shadow	nmod:poss
11	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throw	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 Athens	case
13	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 throw	obl
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 thou	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 thou	advmod
16	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 throw	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tree	punct
18	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tree	amod
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hemlock	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 fame	case
21	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tree	nmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 hemlock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	infinitive		thy shadow		Athens			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme over athens=Destination
2	shadow		thy						nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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